[631] “‘Congemuit:’ not merely groaned, but groaned loudly, as it were with all its force collected into one last effort:” Henry; who seems also right in connecting ‘iugis’ with ‘traxit ruinam,’ and understanding ‘avolsa’ of tearing away the tree from the stump with ropes, like the description in Ov. M. 8. 776. ‘Traxit ruinam iugis’ will then mean that the tree fell heavily, and lay at length along the mountain, not, as has been supposed, that part of the mountain gave way with the tree.
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